Rodolphe, Jean Joseph

Rodolphe, Jean Joseph , also called Rudolphe (14 October 1730, Strasbourg; 18 August 1812, Paris), composer, learned the rudiments of the violin and horn at age seven, and his father sent him to Paris in 1746 to study further the violin, because he had proved quite skillful with it. He held his first positions as violinist in the south of France, but he left this employment in the provinces to join the households of the duke of Parma and the duke of Wurtembearg at Stuttgart. Rodolphe wrote his…